Shorter Ann Althouse: "Having your picture taken next to the President while wearing a T-shirt knit top that makes the fact that one has breasts too evident (thanks to Lindsay in comments), and having ads for T-Shirts on your blog, makes you a "clueless fool"...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The Editors discuss a typically exceptional piece by Dahlia Lithwick, which points to the danger of overly-specific definitions of torture. In his particularly testy press conference today, [more here] President.
Shorter Verbatim Crazy Randian: "Shooting at a Montreal college campus. The cafeteria where the shooting took place is known as "Jew cafe". I am sure there will be a media.
Since the world needs more smart people who think about state and society theory, Matt's post about violence against women in Guatemala reminds me that Angelina Godoy has written a terrific book that contains some fascinating work about the roots of mob violence in Guatemala....
In the credit-where-credit-is-due department, Ed Morrissey points out that discrimination against gays in the military, always bad, is particularly indefensible during times of recruiting shortfalls. This point, in particular, isn't.
Although the show (natch) declines any responsibility, a woman whose daughter was recently abducted committed suicide after being cross-examined on Nancy Grace's screamfest. Weigel reminds us of this excellent TNR.
Self-appointed upholder of academic standards Harvey Mansfield, in a column arguing that universities should become depoliticized by adopting a whole bundle of reactionary bromides familiar to anyone who's seen The O'Reilly Factor, recycles this bit of abject nonsense:The feminists at Harvard seek to remove every...
Non-graphic format Wuzzadem: The best way to defeat Islamofascism is to admit that their underlying beliefs about sexuality and gender are completely correct, and to distribute lots of free copies.
Well, Maybe Some Night Classes To Brush UpRich Lowry. And, by the way, where are these new troops coming from? A draft that might actually compel Rich Lowry to be.
Shorter Anne Applebaum: Two British newspaper columns prove that a rising wave of anti-Americanism was inevitable whether the Bush administration fought the War on Terra (TM) by installing an Islamist quasi-state in Iraq or by doing something rational and defensible. And I'm stunned that the...
Speaking of degenerative projects, in responding to Jon Rauch's point that in The Party of Death he flinches at the implications of his underlying philosophical premises, Ramesh Ponnuru says: Second:.
Aspazia has more on Plan B.To to add a brief addendum to our discussion last week, Santorum's attempt to re-define Plan B is sort of a definitional equivalent of a.